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Noun: foetus  fee-tus
Usage: Brit, Cdn (US: fetus)
  1. An unborn or unhatched vertebrate in the later stages of development showing the main recognizable features of the mature animal
    "she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus";
    - fetus

Derived forms: foetuses

Type of: craniate, vertebrate

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